Hello.
I grew up on BIOS-equipped motherboards. Progress has won us a successor in the form of UEFI. I have the following situation.
Laptop: Samsung NP300V5A
System: Windows 10 Home
Bios: 04FI
MICOM: 04FI (whatever it is)
If in bios: Advanced -> UEFI Boot Support I have enabled (enabled) I have a huge problem with booting the computer from anything other than the internal SSD with Win 10. Inserted flash drives, USB-CDs, and even bootable discs inserted into the internal optical drive are ignored (despite correct configuration in the Boot -> Boot Device Priority tab (the SSD drive is at the very end, everything that has USB in the prefix and the optical drive are set at the beginning).
Everything starts to work properly if I turn off Advanced -> UEFI Boot Support (then everything boots up correctly), only that the system stops booting. Win 10 won't start when UEFI support is disabled.
You could say, okay, before wanting to boot from something other than the internal drive, just disable UEFI support.
There are two problems:
1). I do not know how backup software (Ghost / Clonezilla) will react if I run them when UEFI is turned off, and I want to backup a disk with partitions and the system set to UEFI. Will the running backups boot correctly after restoring and activating UEFI mode?
2). Entering the BIOS (F2) is not so obvious, because the UEFI mode causes even F2 to stop working (react to pressing after turning on the power). To get to the bios, after pressing the key with the Windows symbol, enter boot, the prompt Change advanced startup settings -> Use device
It would be a very nice menu if it worked, because although selecting a USB HDD or SATA CD device suggests that now the laptop will boot from a pendrive or from a CD inserted into the drive, it does not.
Some magic happens, however, because after selecting such the F2 key starts to respond to pressing and entering Bios (to turn off UEFI support for a moment) works.
It seems to me that everything is not working as it should.
I do not know if this is a matter of the company (Samsung has not yet embraced UEFI technology and is getting lost in it), or maybe the bios version (maybe they improved it in the newer version) or some of my ignorance.
Nevertheless, the difficulty of booting a computer from a flash drive or disc in order to back up the system to a network resource is a big problem. On the one hand, the machine is not mine, so I could just beware of Samsung and get the problem over with.
But maybe there are some tricks / tricks / tricks for hassle-free booting even this Samsung from something other than the internal drive, without complicated hitting the bios and disabling UEFI support for a while?
Thank you very much for every factual hint.
best regards
Mariusz
I grew up on BIOS-equipped motherboards. Progress has won us a successor in the form of UEFI. I have the following situation.
Laptop: Samsung NP300V5A
System: Windows 10 Home
Bios: 04FI
MICOM: 04FI (whatever it is)
If in bios: Advanced -> UEFI Boot Support I have enabled (enabled) I have a huge problem with booting the computer from anything other than the internal SSD with Win 10. Inserted flash drives, USB-CDs, and even bootable discs inserted into the internal optical drive are ignored (despite correct configuration in the Boot -> Boot Device Priority tab (the SSD drive is at the very end, everything that has USB in the prefix and the optical drive are set at the beginning).
Everything starts to work properly if I turn off Advanced -> UEFI Boot Support (then everything boots up correctly), only that the system stops booting. Win 10 won't start when UEFI support is disabled.
You could say, okay, before wanting to boot from something other than the internal drive, just disable UEFI support.
There are two problems:
1). I do not know how backup software (Ghost / Clonezilla) will react if I run them when UEFI is turned off, and I want to backup a disk with partitions and the system set to UEFI. Will the running backups boot correctly after restoring and activating UEFI mode?
2). Entering the BIOS (F2) is not so obvious, because the UEFI mode causes even F2 to stop working (react to pressing after turning on the power). To get to the bios, after pressing the key with the Windows symbol, enter boot, the prompt Change advanced startup settings -> Use device
It would be a very nice menu if it worked, because although selecting a USB HDD or SATA CD device suggests that now the laptop will boot from a pendrive or from a CD inserted into the drive, it does not.
Some magic happens, however, because after selecting such the F2 key starts to respond to pressing and entering Bios (to turn off UEFI support for a moment) works.
It seems to me that everything is not working as it should.
I do not know if this is a matter of the company (Samsung has not yet embraced UEFI technology and is getting lost in it), or maybe the bios version (maybe they improved it in the newer version) or some of my ignorance.
Nevertheless, the difficulty of booting a computer from a flash drive or disc in order to back up the system to a network resource is a big problem. On the one hand, the machine is not mine, so I could just beware of Samsung and get the problem over with.
But maybe there are some tricks / tricks / tricks for hassle-free booting even this Samsung from something other than the internal drive, without complicated hitting the bios and disabling UEFI support for a while?
Thank you very much for every factual hint.
best regards
Mariusz
